failure Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about failure.
“Translation is the art of failure.”
- Umberto Eco
“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.”
- W. Clement Stone
“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
- Walter Scott
“I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.”
- Sara Blakely
“I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.”
- Sara Blakely
“In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.”
- Naveen Jain
“I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.”
- George Eliot
“Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.”
- Robert H. Schuller
“Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.”
- Walter Scott
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
- John Wooden